Harnessing The Power Of Information | Order and Disorder | Spark

We think humans have created huge amounts of information. But in fact, it's a tiny amount compared to the information needed to describe the universe. Using beautiful slow-motion footage of a water droplet, presenter Jim Al-Khalili gives us a sense of just how much of what goes on in the physical world is hidden from us.

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[artdonovandesign]

I've lost count of how many times I've viewed Prof. Al Khalili's science documentaries. These shows have no peer.

[timsexton]

Professor Jim Al Khalili is a world-class instructor and this is one of my favorite educational videos on YT.

[jeff__w]

34:57 “[Alan] Turing’s brilliant mind saw that any calculation had two aspects: the data and the instructions for what to do with the data.”
It’s actually fascinating that it took until the mid-1950s for someone to come up with that abstract idea since Joseph Marie Jacquard’s punch cards, demonstrated in 1801—so, exactly a century and a half earlier—worked on essentially the same principle.

[andersonmartinsidelfoncode]

I'm a math graduate student and I must say, this is one of the best docs I've ever seen.

[sabatino]

When, at 50:24, that drop of water is bouncing on the surface and getting smaller each time... I was riveted. Not even exaggerating I was on the edge of my seat gripping the computer mouse with white knuckled intensity. Not just from the sheer wonder of seeing it, but the realization of just how much information is in the fleeting moments we never even get to witness with our own eyes. Its so stupendous.

[ovidiumarian]

I can't believe the human is so brilliant and so dummy in the same time. A beautiful documentary, thank you.

[richardouvrier]

His selection of images is informative and dovetails with the elementary dialogue.

[wdmm]

The loom punch card system was used by someone else to create a punch card system to tabulate the 1890 US Census. This census was later mostly destroyed in a fire.

[RC-uods]

I just love the way information is shared by professor Jim Al Khalili, one of my favourite physicist .... wish one day meet him very soon

[eqkang]

Corruption is the biggest threat to freedom and prosperity. Let's vote against corruption!

[bethbartlett]

*Irving Finkel!* Brilliant Academic, The Expert on Cuneiform Tablets.
Curator at the British Museum.
I adore that man, and his stellar witt!

[gwgwgwgw]

Every event, no matter how modest, Is a wealth of information.

[Aljoheri]

Everything here is beautiful. But I am commenting on this right after the intro to THANK THE SOUNDTRACK COMPOSER.
I love it.

[williamgoode]

50:00
Its was worth the cost of the TV Licence just for the water drop slow mo footage !

[cmdtuts]

Irving Finkle must walk around interpreting and translating things and objects that we take for granted every day. What a fascinating man, I hope to visit his museum some day.

[illuminateme]

The more and more I listen the more I feel that our presence here isn't by chance... I'm normally not one to express solid determination.. but I keep finding beautiful things that could've only been imagined.

Everything in its presence is purely mysterious.

[ironheart]

There for a second I thought that the little demon was doing other things lol 😂😅

[GulzarAhmad-swkh]

It is the first time I heard of the demon's analogy in keeping record of 'states' of molecules. This shows how history is important in understanding the origin of 'concepts' developed by scientists!

[williamhaase]

This is my favorite Jim Al-Khalili video. I've listened to it several times and take more away from it each time.

[joelkavanagh]

al-Khalili sets me of into every direction ...